Story highlights. (CNN)Alan Rickman, the British actor with the unforgettable voice who played the brooding Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films as well as Die Hard villain Hans Gruber, died Thursday after a short battle with cancer, according to his representatives at Independent Talent Group. He was 69.
Brittany Nicole Carpentero (born May 20, 1988), better known by her stage name Diamond, is an American rapper and former member of the group Crime Mob.
Diamond is the April Birthstone, and an alternate Zodiac stone for the Constellation of Aries. Diamond is the ultimate gemstone in several ways: Hardness: Diamond is a perfect 10, simply the hardest substance known by a wide margin. Nothing can scratch a diamond other than another diamond.